Sentences with phrase «introduced by the labour»

Bill 4: An Act to Implement a Supreme Court Ruling Governing Essential Services introduced by Labour Minister Christina Gray lifted the ban on strikes by all public sector employees in response to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2015.

Control orders, which place severe restrictions on the movements of people deemed terror suspects, were introduced by the Labour government.

The «raft of authoritarian legislation» introduced by the Labour government has done little to improve security, Menzies Campbell has warned.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

The law, introduced by Labour in 2004, bans the use of dogs to hunt foxes and other wild mammals in England and Wales.

Etemadzadeh accused the new procedure introduced by the Labour party of being «opaque» and said she had learnt about the progression of her case in the media rather than through communications with the party.

The UK's most respected independent tax and spend monitor, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said today the changes brought in by the comprehensive spending review would «clearly» hit the poorest harder than the better off and be «regressive» without the increase in the higher rate of tax introduced by Labour.

The amendment to the Children and Families Bill, which was introduced by Labour with support from the «Coalition of Consent pop up campaign», was defeated by 303 votes to 219.

I only hope when the time comes that David Cameron has the definitive substantive «bold and radical» conservative policies to back up this somewhat empty speech because in many areas the policies so far announced seem somewhat lacklustre and timid or have already been diluted by facsimiles already introduced by the Labour Government.

There has been uncertainty as to whether the pledge, introduced by Labour, would be kept as the coalition seeks to axe «unnecessary» NHS targets.

All introduced by the Labour government.

Charles Kennedy's famous pledge for a 50p top rate of tax — which attracted many Labourites in 2005 — was the first thing to be axed (since when it has been introduced by Labour).

It quoted an HMRC evaluation of a stamp duty holiday for properties costing up to # 250,000 introduced by Labour after the financial crisis.

In 2007/08 reforms introduced by Labour, the normal pension age for civil service, NHS and teacher pension schemes rose from 60 to 65.

Academies were introduced by Labour as a school improvement measure.

Academy status, introduced by a Labour government, was originally reserved for schools in urgent need of improvement, but since 2010 schools have been encouraged to convert and have been given extra funding for doing so.

Until HRA 1998 — introduced by Labour with the slogan «bringing rights home» — came into force in 2000, the Convention could only be implemented by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg.

Next month, a bill to ban the advertising of unpaid internships is set to have a second reading in Parliament, after being introduced by Labour MP Hazel Blears last year.

Not exact matches

Faced with a potential strike by the airline's machinists union and a lockout of its pilots, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt referred both disputes to the CIRB on March 8, then introduced back - to - work legislation four days later.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Then there is the issue of interventions that in many cases alter the way a labour would naturally progress and by its very nature introduces an increased element of risk.

The Global Compact was introduced by then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to encourage corporations to align «their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.»

The book concludes by introducing a new birth chair designed around women's need for physical support in the hospital delivery room, during labour as well as for the birth, a design that will encourage women to adopt a more positive upright attitude to bringing their babies into the world.

Sponsored by Ovie Omo - Agege (Labour Party, Delta State), the Senate Bill 329 which has already been gazetted and introduced to the lawmakers was referred to the committee on constitution review chaired by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu last December.

The coalition has effectively prevented the Conservatives from pushing through the repeal of the ban introduced by New Labour.

Various workingmen's parties soon followed across the US, motivated by a concern that the rise of a permanent class of wage - labourers had introduced a form of slavery under the sign of «free labour.»

Danny Finkelstein, The Times columnist, outlined the meaning / justification of the Cabinet reshuffle in a similar vein by suggesting you might want a division of labour between «introducing» and «implementing» reforms.

Local government formed one of the devolved powers and the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced by a coalition Scottish Executive formed between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats.

In 1992, Labour published its Right to Information Bill: shadow home secretary Roy Hattersley promised that it would be the first piece of legislation introduced by a new Labour government.

Labour's decision to introduce the beer duty escalator saw duty on the drink rise by two per cent above inflation every year.

Yet, she still went out of her way to show that Labour has never had an «open door» approach - showing the many repressive immigration acts passed by her party as evidence — and praising her party's pledge to introduce 1000 more border guards than the Tories to stop «illegal migrants».

Apparently labour introduced an increase of pension age to 65 in 1995 but failed to inform the women of the 50's who would be most directly affected, the government failed its legal duty to inform all women personally of this change, they tried to get away with this by stating they didn't have any current details, except they forget that they have all details from PAYE, us women still received all our NI demands and self - assessments as well as any tax or child benefit details, so they do have out details, they just failed to carry out this legal action.

The Condems aren't the only ones to have introduced them, & I fear that by introducing them in acts like the Digital Economy Act, Labour may have handed the Condems a loaded gun.

One school in Gloucestershire cited by Labour as an example introduced «a drive on outdoor education» and an increased use of technology.

[1] The 1997 Labour manifesto included a commitment to reform local government in London by introducing an elected mayor.

This is partly because they've reduced the education budget as far as they can by introducing nursing bursaries, which both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have promised to reinstate.

Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.

If Labour had won, its referendum would have included questions on whether to elect MPs by the Alternative Vote (AV) system and whether to introduce a fully elected upper chamber in stages.

The final package of Refounding Labour measures they have agreed is shrouded in the language of empowering members, as were those introduced by Tony Blair in 1997 and Gordon Brown in 2007.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

So building on the success of Labour's Future Jobs Fund — so short - sightedly scrapped by this government — we will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee for young people and the long - term unemployed.

Andrew Percy will argue the post, which was created by New Labour but was never fully introduced, is essential to improving bereaved armed forces families» experiences of military inquests.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

Most of the changes introduced by the 1945 — 51 Labour government were accepted by the Conservatives and became part of the «post-war consensus» that lasted until the late 1970s.

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey has today pledged that under a Labour government there would be a «consumer rights revolution» for renters, starting by introducing tougher... Read more

Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Housing John Healey has today pledged that under a Labour government there would be a «consumer rights revolution» for renters, starting by introducing tougher legal minimum standards for all private rented homes.

During First Minister's Questions this afternoon, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, called on the Welsh Labour Government to consider introducing free school meals for all year one and year two primary pupils as has been announced in England by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

David Cameron is to lay down a pre-election challenge to Labour and the Liberal Democrats over Europe by retabling a parliamentary bill this year to introduce a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

Labour MPs tried in 2006 to undo some of the damage by introducing the Trade Union Freedom Bill.

Asked by another Labour MP, Chris Leslie, why the time set aside was an eighth of the amount of time used to debate the bill introducing the 1992 Maastricht treaty, Lidington said this was «synthetic rage».